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Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce) Recipe

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Amelia Gross

Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce)
Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, gado-gado (healthy indonesian salad with peanut sauce). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Gado Gado - fun to say, delicious to eat, this traditional Indonesian salad is probably the only recipe where you can put the words blanched vegetables and That Gado Gado peanut sauce is a miracle worker! A Bali food favourite, it's healthy and endlessly versatile. Use ANY vegetables - raw or cooked! Indonesians are so clever - they came up with a way to make us WANT to eat boiled vegetables.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have gado-gado (healthy indonesian salad with peanut sauce) using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce):
  1. Get Half bunch of kangkung (you can replace with spinach or)
  2. Make ready sprouts
  3. Make ready Cabbage
  4. Prepare Cucumber
  5. Take 2 blocks tofu
  6. Make ready Lime juice
  7. Get 50 g palm sugar
  8. Get 100 g peanuts
  9. Prepare 3 chillies
  10. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
  11. Get Egg(s)
  12. Prepare Water

Aisha Nanor Martin's spicy Indonesian salad has it all; crunchy vegetables, boiled eggs, chilli peanut sauce, fresh coriander, fried tofu and a sprinkling of prawn crackers for added crunch. This delicious Indonesian salad recipe can be eaten as a first course or a main. Most of the prep work involves cutting and blanching the vegetables. Gado-gado is my favorite Indonesian salad.

Steps to make Gado-Gado (Healthy Indonesian Salad with Peanut Sauce):
  1. Fry the peanuts untill it gets brownish
  2. While frying your peanuts. Boil all your vegetables along with the egg(s). Watch it out, don't let it overcooked :D
  3. After you're done with the peanuts. Fry your tofu.
  4. Then. The peanut sauce… You can actually grind it for tastier taste. But I was kinda lazy that I chose to blend it using blender hehe. So put together the fried peanuts, palm sugar, chillies, pinch of salt and water. And blend it untill it is mixed. For the texture, keep it not too thick nor watery. So my advice is to pour the water little by little.
  5. Last thing is to put them together in one plate. Mix the peanut sauce with the boiled veggies and add little more taste with the lime juice.
  6. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Most of the prep work involves cutting and blanching the vegetables. Gado-gado is my favorite Indonesian salad. This Sundanese dish is a national favorite, and it consists of lightly boiled and blanched vegetables, hard-boiled eggs, boiled potatoes, fried tofu and/or tempeh cubes, and lontong (steamed rice cakes) served with spicy peanut sauce. • Indonesian vegetable salad. I used my food processor to make the sauce which was very easy and turned out great. For those of you who are not familiar with some of the ingredients used in the sauce, I'm posting some photos of the key ingredients below.

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